a generally soporific or at best listless phone conversation

What had formerly been a sedative, a tranquilizing soporific, had morphed into a facilitator of reflection

these soporific linguistic screensavers

the soporific blandness of "solutions"

maintains us in a state of soporific wakefulness

As pedantic prose, it has potent soporific properties.

an intelligent, amiable Greek whose soporific discourses on social injustice were his only fault

antagonize the soporific fog of solipsism

the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film

as if Rosler no longer trusts her audience to infer ambiguous cues or take her Frankfurt School meditations for anything but soporific jargon